App to schedule posts on Lemmy
App to schedule posts on Lemmy
I've made an app that makes it possible to schedule a post in Lemmy at an arbitrary time. It's available at https://schedule.lemmings.world and can be used by people from any instance.
Let me know what you think!
P.S. This post was made using the app!
Edit: And it's open source!
Thank you for the website! Are you plañing to add the option to post pictures as well ?
Not currently, no. You can post pictures by uploading it somewhere first and then using it as a link.
If more people use it and want that feature I'll consider it, but so far it's not planned.
I agree that this is a feature Lemmy lacks and would be great to have in the core. And thank you for taking the time to create it. However, asking for username and password is a security problem. I'm not attributing any ill intent to your work, but something like this can very well be used to harvest account credentials. So I would advise people to not use solutions like this.
Unfortunately Lemmy doesn't provide a better way to implement this kind of add-ons. Hopefully one day it will have a better Auth system. Until then, I think I will stick to the official UI and hope that this will come to core :)
I mean, if you use an app, or alternative Lemmy UI, you give it the same access. The minute Lemmy supports OAuth, I'm switching to it. Until then there's no other way.
It's open source if it's any help.
That's the main reason I don't use any apps. I don't think there is a real need to suspect the official UI. If one doesn't trust the instance admins, then they should rather migrate.
In case of an application running on a server, there is no reliable way to make sure that the source being shared is the source that is deployed. As I said, I don't think you have any ulterior motives. I'm only trying to raise awareness around a specific problem with Lemmy. Perhaps I should create a separate post about this in relevant communities, if it hasn't been done already.
It’s open source if it’s any help.
Hmm.
You've made a good tool, but perhaps are conducting in the wrong marketing? If this tool were say, an easy-to-use Rasp. Pi and/or docker image that will post at the appropriate times, then it might avoid that issue?
Then again, I see the advantage of your web-centered approach. Eventually OAuth will be a thing for Lemmy, I'm sure, and then the workflow for a web tool like this would be perfect. Username/password is strictly a temporary measure until Lemmy matures and gets OAuth features.